Dr. Norman Geisler, PhD.
Co-Founder
The late Dr. Norman Geisler was known as the premiere apologist of the 20th century. He developed a three-tiered model that integrates apologetics, philosophy, and theology, and over a 60 year career in ministry he mentored or influenced many of today’s top Christian leaders. He is the author of over a hundred books that have impacted the foundations of modern Christianity, including “The 12 Points that Show Christianity is True.” In practical terms, Norm was the first to see the value in using a classical, two-step apologetic approach as opposed to merely an evidential approach in witnessing to a postmodern generation.
As a leading member of the International Council on Biblical Inerrancy, his influence was crucial to building a bedrock for the church to stand on through the drafting of the Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy. He founded the International Society of Christian Apologetics, and co-founded two seminaries: Southern Evangelical Seminary, and Veritas Evangelical Seminary, now called Veritas International University.
In 2015, Dr. Norman Geisler and his son David co-founded Norm Geisler International Ministries, and in 2018 they launched the ministry’s discipleship arm, the Norm Geisler Institute.
Dr. Norman Geisler held a B.A. in Philosophy from Wheaton College, an M.A. in Theology from Wheaton Graduate School, a Th.B. from William Tyndale College, and a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Loyola University.
Dr. David Geisler
President, Co-founder
Building on what his father taught him, David has developed new paradigms of integrating and applying apologetics with evangelism. Together with his late father, Dr. Norman Geisler, David co-authored the book “Conversational Evangelism,” which has since been translated into six languages. David is currently pioneering a 4 R’s model (Rooted, Rested, Ready, Reaching) that integrates apologetics, evangelism, and discipleship, based in part on what David also learned from his friend and mentor Rev. Edmund Chan.
David speaks internationally, offering seminars, training and certificate programs in both his father’s 12 Points and his Conversational Evangelism models. He encourages Christians to reframe apologetics from a 1 Peter 3:15 model, “be ready to give a defense”, to a Matthew 13:23 model, “cultivating good soil.” Using discipleship principles, David motivates the body of Christ to use apologetic tools in sharing the faith in culturally, personally, and spiritually sensitive ways.
Serving as a missionary in Asia from 2004-2011, David trained over 300 bible and seminary students in practical apologetics, many who are now pastors and missionaries all over Asia. He holds a Master in Biblical Studies and a Master in Theology from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctor of Ministries in Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. He helped develop a national pilot program for skeptical students with Campus Crusade for Christ (now called CRU) from 1994-1999. He teaches in various seminaries around the globe and as an adjunct professor at both of the seminaries his father founded: Southern Evangelical Seminary and Veritas International University. He also serves on the leadership panel for Intentional Discipleship Making Conferences (IDMC), founded by Rev. Edmund Chan.
Raymond Kwan
National Director - Singapore
Raymond has had a passion for both apologetics and evangelism since he came to Christ in 1999. Under the mentorship of Dr David Geisler, he has been conducting conversational evangelism and apologetics training and coaching in Singapore for over 10 years.
With a focus on edifying and equipping churches in evangelism, Raymond has led workshops and trainings in various churches from different denominations and tertiary education institutions throughout Singapore. These include teaching at the National University of Singapore and Singapore Polytechnics, and at evangelism conferences such as GoForth 2018, and church camps and para-church organizations such as Cru.
Raymond obtained a Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary in 2012. He has served with NGIM since 2006.
Brian Henson
Director of Youth Apologetics and Evangelism
With a mission for leading young people to Christ, and establishing them in their faith, Brian Henson developed his series “Grounded”. This series gives seekers of truth an unshakeable foundation, and trains them to impact the culture for Christ. “Grounded” is a dynamic teaching series on how to uproot a naturalistic worldview, and replace it with a rational and factual Christian faith.
Speaking around the country to youth and parents, Brian shares how his story of how, as a new Christian, his faith was severely challenged at college. He began to doubt that Christianity was true, and came to realize the importance of knowing how to understand and defend his beliefs. He dedicated his life to studying and teaching apologetics, with the mission of helping others build unshakeable foundations for their own faith.
Brian currently teaches Bible at Charlotte Christian School, and has been a high school Bible teacher since 2001. He has taught Old Testament, New Testament, Christian Theology, World Religions, Logic, Debate, and Apologetics. Graduating in 1999 from East Carolina University where he majored in Religious Studies, History, and Anthropology, he went on to receive a Masters in Biblical Archaeology from Wheaton College (2001) and spent six months studying at Jerusalem University College in Israel. He has a second Masters in Christian Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary (2011) and was trained by Norm Geisler. Brian is currently working on his Doctor of Ministry degree at SES.
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Don Deal
Director of Classical Apologetics
Don is a recognized expert in the areas of scientific apologetics and Islamic studies. He has contributed ten articles to “War and Religion: An Encyclopedia of Faith and Conflict”, two articles to “Evangelical America: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary American Religious Culture“, and a chapter to the “Harvest Handbook of Apologetics.”
Don has been studying and teaching apologetics for twenty years and is a member of the Southern Evangelical Seminary’s T.E.A.M. (Truth Evangelism and Apologetics Mission), and a volunteer apologist with the scientific apologetics ministry Reasons to Believe. Don sometimes travels with David Geisler to co-teach in bible colleges and seminaries in different parts of the globe.
Don holds a Master’s degree in Biblical and Theological Studies from Luther Rice University, and a Master of Arts in Christian Apologetics from Southern Evangelical Seminary. Currently Don is pursuing a PhD in Intercultural Studies with Columbia International University.
